Beneficial Breast Milk

My sister Nikki gave birth to a beautiful baby girl eighteen months ago. From the beginning she was fed nothing but breast milk. Today, I can see that my niece is far more intelligent than most babies her age. If you ask her where something is on her body, she can point it out to you. If you tell her to do something, an act that most babies her age shouldn't be able to accomplish, she will do it without struggle. More and more research is being found proving that breastfeeding has a beneficial impact on babies. Specifically, their brains. A recent study used a baby-friendly magnetic resonance imagining (MRI) to measure brain activity in children between the ages of 10 months to four years. By the age of two, signs of enhanced development in certain parts of the brain were more noticeable in children who were fed solely breast milk, as opposed to those who were fed baby formula or a mixture of both. Language, emotional function, and cognition were the most pronounced areas of development. While looking over these MRIs, researchers were looking for substantial differences in white matter growth. White matter is the tissue within the brain that helps with communication between different parts of the brain through long nerve fibers. Between breastfed and non-breastfed children, there is a 20 to 30 percent difference in white matter growth, which at this age is amazing. Researchers have also compared the effects of the duration of time at which these children were breastfed,  showing an increase in development especially in motor skills. You can find more about this subject by clicking on the link here.